Health - 9 October 2007

2007-10-09 12:41:18 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Skin Conditions

My teeth are extremely bad, and I haven't been to a dentist since I was in the 1st grade. I was wondering if you are put to sleep during a root canal. I heard they are the most painful things to bear (next to childbirth) but my friend had one and he played in our baseball game the same night.

2007-10-09 12:41:06 · 8 answers · asked by atomicsheffield 3 in Dental

Does anyone suffer from oseteoarthritis? Just wondering if anyone can describe how they feel?

2007-10-09 12:40:35 · 3 answers · asked by angel 4 in Other - Diseases

My opthalmologist told me I will eventually go blind in my right eye. What does it feel like?

2007-10-09 12:40:04 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Diseases

I have several things I need to do and am not sure which order or the best way to do it. I need to do the following
Loose 50 lbs
Quit smoking
Quit taking Effexor.
I am not sure in which order I should do this. I KNOW quiting Effexor will be a long process. I have done this before and it took months. (Like 6)
For quiting smoking, I will be doing it cold turkey. I will not be using any of the quit smoking aids. (for financial reasons)
Does anyone have any advice for me as to the order I should work on this.
Thanks so much!!

2007-10-09 12:39:55 · 13 answers · asked by lovin life 3 in Mental Health

I can see her wetness under her arms allot waht is wrong? i am worried

2007-10-09 12:39:18 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Diseases

I'm not really sure how to explain this... Throughout the day I suffer from no involuntary movements. But, when I go to bed, they start. When I lay down, and this is the weird part, I start moving uncontrollably, trying to get my feet away from the end of the bed and ducking under the window or away from a curtain that isn't basically taped to the wall surrounding the window. I know that, for some reason, these uncontrollable spasms occur when my comforter isnt positioned just right in the space between the end of my bed and my bookshelf. That's with a mix of my OCD i guess. If the curtains arent taped to the wall, it will happen, as if to be sure nobody can see me. It also happens if I enter a room with a clearly elevated door. If I can see the light or lack thereof on the other side, I have to run behind a counter or in a corner so as if, if you were trying, you couldn't see me through the crack, where I then have spasms for a bit. What the hell's wrong with me?

2007-10-09 12:39:14 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Diseases

Doc called me today and said i need further testing...I'm a nervous wreck...49yrs old ...any suggestions?

2007-10-09 12:39:13 · 4 answers · asked by 2 cents 5 in Cancer

2007-10-09 12:37:47 · 15 answers · asked by angel 6 in Other - Health

HI! On friday I burnt my leg with a clothing iron. It didn't hurt, and I was shocked to see hours later that it had blistered over. I thought nothing of it until it accidentally popped and drained a really gross clear fluid. The next morning, my leg was hurting, and I looked and it was beginning to get red around the burn. So I put some antibiotic cream on it, and now two days later, the redness around it has gotten a lot worse, and everything hurts my leg. Showering, walking, my pants, the bed covers. The burn itself is about four inches long and about two inches wide, and now with the redness around it, it's about 6 inches wide and about 6 inches long...I really don't want to go to the doctor unless Im about to die, is there any treatment that I can try and when should I know that I definantely need to go to have it checked out!

2007-10-09 12:37:04 · 5 answers · asked by Sarah N 2 in Injuries

If your nerve cells die in the pulp, I read that your tooth could start to discolor. If you were to bring back those nerves would the discoloration disappear?

If nerve damage were to happen to your teeth, how would one go about fixing it?


Is there any way of regrowing tooth enamel? When we crack our knuckles, after a period of time our knuckles get bigger because of the extra bone that was generated to heal the cracked knuckles. Why doesn't that happen to teeth?

2007-10-09 12:36:18 · 6 answers · asked by A 3 in Dental

I've been a big guy my entire life but I knew I was in trouble when I hit 420lbs at just 26yo. I joined weight watchers and started working out with a personal trainer to get my life together and although i've hit some bumps, I'm down almost 50lbs. I'd like to stop at around 280-300lbs and try to build up muscle. I'm 6'4 and I don't want to get skinny, I'd like to have linemen build. Currently I diet and train 2-3 times a week with weights. I'm just afraid that if I drop all the weight my body will go from bad to worse with all the loose skin. I was just wondering if you worked out, dieted and maintained if being that size was still a danger. Also if you can grow into loose skin...Meaning that if I trained hard and built muscle, if the skin would fill out or will it always look awkward? Any help would be welcomed.

2007-10-09 12:34:31 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Diet & Fitness

sometimes I'll get some type of weird feeling in my nose. It's kind of like a dense smell, but i'm not really smelling it, it's more like i am feeling it in my upper nose. Well, I have probably 10 different ones and whenever I get that feeling I get an extremely vivid memory of something very unimportant from a long time ago. Sometimes I'll forget about that feeling and it will come back randomly and I'll feel really familiar with that smell/feeling. I doubt anybody can relate to this, but is there some type of name for this?

2007-10-09 12:34:30 · 3 answers · asked by Daniel H 2 in Mental Health

People told me it was wrong, so I stopped watching it. And I hadn't watched it in a few months, but I went back and watched some today.

What do I do? I'm 20 and not sure how to feel about it. I like it, but its wrong right?

2007-10-09 12:34:13 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Men's Health

I have had depression for 3 years now. and this year has been different I have depression and seasonal depression so the fall and winter is worse. how can you tell you no longer have it? my doctor says I can be growing out of it because my brain hasn't fully developed because I am not 18-20 yet. so my question is how do you know you have overcome depression? --thanks!

2007-10-09 12:32:28 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mental Health

Ok, i had a wisdom tooth extracted this morning. I have been following the instructions but somethings are concerning me.

1) I have a slight salty taste in my mouth. Is that normal?

2) I looked at the tooth and cannot see any blood clot there.. i hope I havent swallowed it or anything. Is it normal for there NOT to be any blood visible, or could that mean it hasnt healed properly.

I am particularly concerned because I am 38 weeks pregnant, so I obviously worried about infections/excessive pain etc as that could trigger labour I guess, or harm the baby in some other way.

2007-10-09 12:30:28 · 9 answers · asked by Chimera's Song 6 in Dental

I'm not a male, so I don't understand how you guys work. However, I went to bring my husband lunch today (he was working an off duty detail) and when I walked into the bank where he was doing the off duty detail he was sitting behind a desk reading the local newspaper. After handing him his lunch, he walked behind me to walk me out to my car and I noticed he was slightly erect. Should I be concerned about something he may have been doing before I arrived? Looking at another woman? Talking to another woman? Or was he really just reading the newspaper and it just happened? Can you guys become slightly erect during the middle of day with no sort of stimulation?

2007-10-09 12:28:36 · 34 answers · asked by GreenEyes 1 in Men's Health

I was thinking the other day about the fact that on avergae sharks have 3,000 teeth, and that every time they lose one the back teeth push forward and replace it. When I thought about our teeth, and how we only have one row of 'replacing teeth' and those are our adult and baby teeth, I thought that wouldn't it be great if we could grow another tooth, if we lost our adult teeth? I do admit alot of dentists might be out of jobs, but is is even possible?

What obstacles would one have to battle to find a way for the body to regenerate the growth of a replacement tooth???

2007-10-09 12:28:30 · 4 answers · asked by A 3 in Dental

i have a cholesterol exam tomorow and i was just wondering how long i have to leave without food in my stomache

2007-10-09 12:27:08 · 3 answers · asked by zush 1 in Diet & Fitness

though she had cramps and that was the only sign. my sister-in-law is very conserned about this and had a pregnancy test and it came out positive.

2007-10-09 12:26:30 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Women's Health

Is it true like this site http://chetday.com/rootcanal.html

2007-10-09 12:26:24 · 2 answers · asked by sniper296296 2 in Dental

1. What are the advanages and disadvantages of wearing colored contacts?

2. Is it normal for colored contacts on your second day with them to cause redness, itching, watery eyes, stinging, a little bit of double vision, and blurry vision?

3. How can I keep my contacts clean while inside my eyes? They like t get a little bit dirty and cloudy.

4. How many times a day should I use Visine for contacts?

5. If the eye doctor said my vision hasn't changed enough to inherit new glasses what is my vision? It was 20/60 the first time I was there. This was the second time. What am I now 20/?

2007-10-09 12:22:52 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Optical

I just got an eye exam and the doctor said I have 30/20 vision and a little bit of astigmatism in my left eye, what does this mean because the doctor really didn't explain it.

2007-10-09 12:22:29 · 7 answers · asked by frank5254 1 in Optical

my hand hurts so bad i cant barely touch it no one beleives me it is all black and blue what should i do?

2007-10-09 12:17:00 · 2 answers · asked by ? 2 in Other - General Health Care

Also, have any information on what might cause sensations of numbness during one?

2007-10-09 12:16:49 · 4 answers · asked by MainelyAs11 2 in Pain & Pain Management

2007-10-09 12:14:10 · 2 answers · asked by Beejan M 1 in Men's Health

i bought a skin cream that had 2 percent hydroquine it sounded familiar so i researched it and i founded out it causes cancer do you think I m at a great risk i only used it 5 times

2007-10-09 12:13:59 · 3 answers · asked by hello there 1 in Cancer

2007-10-09 12:11:36 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Diseases

2007-10-09 12:08:24 · 8 answers · asked by miz.tickle11 2 in Women's Health

I'm a 30 year old woman with a strong family history of breast cancer. I will be 4th generation. I had a historectomy last year. I can't take HRT, so she put me on progesterone. It helped w/ the mood swings, but that was it. Now she has taken me off of it. She is sending me to a charity clinic in Shreveport (I don't have insurence). I have no clue when they will be able to see me and I can't take the hot flashes, mood swings, and NO sexual drive. And neither can my husband. I need advice on what i can do!!!!

2007-10-09 12:07:43 · 1 answers · asked by madison4277 1 in Cancer